When sharing my thoughts recently with a marketing pro, their response

LOL! Marketing is a lot of work - which is mostly invisible to everyone else!

Then followed by detailed experiences and pitfalls that I appreciated immensely. As a developer-for-life putting time into marketing is a big change. I am not sure the following is the most important lesson in marketing, but definitely important for me during this transition.

Software development has an inherent pleasure response - code in, results out, yay. Marketing is more like planting seeds, watering your plants every day, and one day seeing it just poke out of the dirt. Exclaim victory but then realize you have so much more to go. Marketing takes patience, immense investments in time and details while setting personal expectations for one not to get ahead of them self. All this while no one else really notices.

Jeremiah is a Technical Solutions Engineer for Puppet Labs. He is a long time Linux user and most recently has focused on bringing automation solutions into heterogeneous IT environments.

6:30pm Being responsible for engineering quality with Grant Ammons
Bucks County Tech
Location @ MeetMe 100 Union Square Drive, New Hope, PA
In this talk, Grant Ammons focus on how "QA" has turned into a loaded word. Engineering leaders should be wary of creating departments where a "wall" can exist, that the work of quality can be thrown over.

Thursday October 1st

5:00pm NumPy Creator Travis Oliphant
Philadelphia Python Users Group
Location @ Susquehanna 401 City Avenue, Bala Cynwyd, PA
He will be giving a talk discussing the continuing expansion of the Python community, industry trends, and Continuum Analytics’ role in shaping the future.

6:00pm Code For Philly Workshop #152
Code For Philly
Location @ Devnuts 908 North 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA
Join us at our weekly workshop to learn about technology, sharpen your skills, and help Philly at the same time!

6:30pm Ways to build an automation team
Automated Testing Philadelphia
Location @ PromptWorks : 1211 Chestnut Street Suite 400, Philadelphia, PA
One of the hardest parts of bringing automation to an organization can be simply getting started. How do you find the right people? How do you train your current people? Luckily, we have some answers for you! Bob Hefele from CoreDial and John Klose from Swift will each speak about their experiences and challenges in building a QA team focused around automation.

Thursday October8th

Philadelphia's third annual LocationTech event is an evening speaker series featuring technical talks on the convergence of open source and geospatial. This is presented by GeoPhilly and hosted by Azavea. This event follows the JS.Geo conference in Philadelphia and is conveniently located in the same venue.